Ten collages

For some reason, I have never wanted to use my own writing as the basis for my paintings. I am sure there is some fabulously dark psychological reason for this, but I am not interested in it; I accept that I like to write things that people can read and I like to paint things that are hard to read.

But I have been feeling a little like I need to find a way to put my own writing into my paintings...or at least to make it possible. So I've been making a huge pile of collages that are serving as s midpoint between the texts I feel okay with using and 'my writing' (whatever that is...)...

Here are a few...

In the few books I've filled with these, there are a few pages that seem slightly accusatory...they are there to push me further, I think, and suggest an underlying dissatisfaction with what I've made so far...

It seemed that having some phrases was a good strategy, and some of them enabled me to make passages that spanned a few pages. But they broke down. I am considering whether there should be more small units (prepositional phrases, dependent clauses and whatnot) that could be scanned and combined with other parts of sentences...

I have found that an envelope full of pronouns is really helpful in doing these, but I am also cautious about defaulting to a Jenny Holzer/Barbara Kruger means of addressing the reader... 

Some are jus ridiculous...and that's fine.